In The Charge Of The Light Brigade Tennyson goes through each stage of the battle, within each individual stanza. This is because in Tennyson’s poem he talks about the different stages of the battle, where as Owen doesn’t really mention battle, it’s more about the soldiers’ suffering. The Charge Of The Light Brigade is a lot more structured then Exposure. However in some ways the poems are similar as the language used indicates that poets generalise and universalise all the men in the war. Unlike Tennyson who is trying to honour and glorify the soldiers and so making the poem seem more pleasant. In Exposure Owen speaks of the soldiers’ pain and this is what I think makes the poem so disheartening to read, because he is trying to show how war causes suffering and reduces the soldiers. However the poem doesn’t mention soldiers attacking them, which may indicate that the weather and other things were more threatening and chilling, then the enemy. As well as things like the barbed wire in front of the enemies trenches, “Like twitching agonies of men amongst its brambles”. He mentions the weather attacking them, which can be seen from “in the merciless iced winds that knive us”. Where as in Exposure the mood is very depressing and dismal as Owen is constantly saying how the soldiers were being attacked in different ways. ![]() This is what I think plays a big part in making the mood of the poem so light, as it avoids death, which is upsetting. In The Charge Of The Light Brigade it doesn’t really distinguish those soldiers that died in battle and those that lived, “Then they rode back, but not the six hundred”. Here he is basically saying that they have been shot down, but the way Tennyson puts it, it’s like it’s not that dramatic, when it is. This is helped by the fact that Tennyson doesn’t go into the atrocities of the war, instead writing of “When horse and hero fell”. In The Charge Of The Light Brigade the mood is very light and gives the feeling that all the soldiers, were excited about what they were doing. The mood, tone and language in each poem are completely different from the other. The First World War was fought over several years and the soldiers spent a lot of that time in trenches. ![]() For these reasons I may be able to place more value on Wilfred Owen’s poem. Where as Owen wrote Exposure from first hand experience.
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